Saving payment for later with activemerchant

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Active Merchant seems like a nice gem for payments. However, I need the ability to save a customer's payment information and then charge the card at a later date (ie, at time of shipping not at time of order placement).

Both Braintree and Stripe have a way to do this by giving me a customer id to save to my db. Then I would use this id to charge the customer at some date.

I looked through Active Merchant Stripe code, and its purchase() has comments:

   # To create a charge on a customer, call
   #   purchase(money, nil, { :customer => id, ... })

Which seems like there's a way to get a customer id.

How do I get Active Merchant to create a customer object and return the customer id for Stripe and Braintree? And is this feature supported in activemerchant for all gateways that support this payment method?

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user21398

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Saving payment for later with activemerchant